Movie Notes: Resident Evil: Extinction
= 1 star
Starring Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Matthew Marsden
Directed by Russell Mulcahy
Synopsis
The entire United States has been devastated by the deadly T-virus. Genetically altered Alice (Milla Jovovich) teams up with a band of apocalypse survivors to eliminate the epidemic and take on the mysterious Umbrella Corporation.
The Good
- A few sorta cool self-referential sequences that reference the first and second installments. Essentially, Alice makes her way back to the Raccoon City underground in the quest to find a cure for the zombie-creating T-virus.
- Alice the clone gets to meet her own clone.
- Mill Jovovich is appropriately hot as always.
The Bad
- Tries to mix things up by moving to a post-apocalyptic world where survivors ride about Road Warrior style running from the zombies. Unfortunately, the new crack team is a real bore, and even the zombies have become rather dull, as if our heroes have run out of entertaining ways to slay them.
- Most of the characters from the second movie — including the amusingly clad Jill Valentine — are absent. Hey, if you got nothing beyond zombies, at least keep the eye candy.
Conclusion
Out of all the Resident Evil flicks, this one felt the most like watching someone else playing a video game. This was not a good thing.
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